Skull and Bones has extended its first season by a week, re-enabled chat, and added opt-in open world PvP, a major community request.
06.03.2024 - 20:50 / gamerant.com / John Bonelli / Ubisoft
Ubisoft's latest release, Skull and Bones, has seen its price reduced by $25 only three weeks after its release, though it has since returned to full price. Skull and Bones is Ubisoft's second $70 AAA title behind December 2023's first-person adventure shooter Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. As the price of video games has risen from the $60 standard over the past several years, many gamers have become more selective over which games they choose to spend money on, live service titles especially.
After years of new trailers, disappointing delays, and even a development reboot, Skull and Bones is finally available to the masses. The pirate-themed live service ship combat game launched to unremarkable reception, with many Ubisoft fans opting to revisit Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag instead. Ever since Skull and Bones' beta weekends, Black Flag has seen its player counts skyrocket, as its stellar naval combat served as the springboard for Ubisoft to move ahead with Skull and Bones in the first place. Additionally, rumors of a Black Flag remake have garnered a lot of buzz and excitement throughout the gaming zeitgeist, certainly more so than Skull and Bones' launch has.
Now, only a few weeks after its release, Skull and Bones' controversial $70 price tag has been slashed nearly in half to $45 at Best Buy. Unfortunately for gamers who have been waiting for a price cut to set sail on the open sea, Skull and Bones was mysteriously restored back to its original $70 price just a day later. The reasons for this strange $25 price reduction are unknown, though it's possible it could've been an error on Best Buy's end, considering it was reverted the next day. Skull and Bones is currently available for $65 at GameStop, making it apparent that the game is slowly beginning to come down in price.
While Skull and Bones' Best Buy price has since gone back up to $70, it's possible it will see another permanent drop sometime soon, as it is still struggling to find its footing weeks after launch. Most live service games launch as free to play, so when an online service game comes along that asks gamers to shell out $70, the company behind it almost always meets backlash and the title is more likely to struggle. If its price does happen to plummet by summer, Skull and Bones would have a better chance at finding success, as more people would be willing to dive into its open seas.
Skull and Bones isn't the only big new 2024 game to have its $70 price tag slashed. Rocksteady's struggling Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has seen similar price cuts at most big retailers, though these seem to be permanent, even with a seasonal roadmap with new characters like the Joker lined up. As 2024 continues, it'll be interesting to see
Skull and Bones has extended its first season by a week, re-enabled chat, and added opt-in open world PvP, a major community request.
Skull and Bones, the live service pirate game that released just over two weeks ago on PS5, is already having its price slashed across the US and Europe. It was a full-price title at launch — your now-standard $69.99 / £69.99 — but it's currently down to as low as $44.99 / £49.85 (as reported by VGC). While that's certainly not what we'd call cheap, it's still a significant discount after such a short length of time on the market, and it suggests that retailers are struggling to shift copies.
Ubisoft may no longer be able to really claim that Skull and Bones is a AAAA game.
Ubisoft’s second $70 game, Skull and Bones, has seen its price reduced significantly less than three weeks after its release.
So far, 2024 has been incredibly solid with its big AAA releases. Multiple companies like Atlus, SEGA, Capcom, and Square Enix have been dropping quality titles for gamers to enjoy. And then, there’s Ubisoft, who has been trying to spin the release of Skull and Bones into something positive. Their pirate-themed multiplayer adventure title has been in development limbo for years, and then when the beta finally released, it didn’t exactly spur people to try it out for full price. Ubisoft has been going overboard, pun intended, to sell it as a AAAA title, which many know by now to be nothing more than a puffery statement.
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